Question
This character fantasizes that her former suitor Shep Huntleigh will return to whisk her away. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this character who tells a doctor “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” She has a breakdown after being assaulted by Stanley Kowalski.
ANSWER: Blanche DuBois (“doo-BWAH”) [prompt on DuBois]
[10h] This actress from Alabama inspired Tennessee Williams to create his characters of Blanche DuBois and Princess Kosmonopolis. This actress inspired Cruella de Vil and topped the Hays Committee’s “Doom Book” of “unsuitable” actresses for her “verbal moral turpitude.”
ANSWER: Tallulah Bankhead [or Tallulah Brockman Bankhead]
[10m] Bankhead won the inaugural New York Drama Critics Award for her portrayal of this other character. In a play, Miss Somerset acts as this character, who works as the maid of a family facing an impending ice age.
ANSWER: Lily Sabina Fairweather [prompt on Lily or Fairweather] (She appears in Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth.)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago B | Maryland A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Texas A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | Ohio State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | McGill A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Houston A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Purdue A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| MIT A | Harvard A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan A | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | Rutgers B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Florida B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Claremont A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Illinois A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford A | Duke A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Toronto A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia A | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Brown A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |